Word: roamings
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...married sister whose husband had deserted her. Young Agron had been in scrapes with the police before. Umbrella Man was a surly 17-year-old named Antonio Hernandez, whose stepmother and father (a hotel worker) live in a filthy Harlem flat. He had left home weeks before to roam the streets and prey on homosexuals and hopheads who wander through the slum areas...
...bought them, as before they had bought Ella Wheeler Wilcox and James Whitcomb Riley. A Heap o' Livin' ("It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home/A heap o' sun an' shadder, an' ye sometimes have to roam") alone went through 35 printings, sold more than 1,000,000 copies. At his peak, Guest earned $128,000 a year. He had many impressive friends; Henry Ford and William Lyon Phelps were among his greatest admirers. He owned two handsome homes-a vast, colonnaded winter residence in Detroit...
...opened her own school. To it thronged pupils who later graduated to Founder Rambert's company and then to careers in larger companies-Choreographers Frederick Ashton, Antony Tudor, Andrée Howard, Agnes de Mille. Swaddled in wrinkled black tights and shapeless pink top. Teacher Rambert would roam the practice room correcting ("Long the arms"), scolding ("You use your leg like a mop"), occasionally doing exuberant cart wheels across the floor. Still as exuberant as ever, she now celebrates each birthday by doing a "fish dive" into the arms of the nearest partner...
...hate Le Mans," growls Britain's Stirling Moss. "It's not a race but a circus." Three hundred thousand spectators flock to Le Mans, spend more than $1,000,000 on other amusements as the sports cars roar over public roads through the 24-hour grind. They roam through 500-odd fair stands, quaff more than 100,000 liters of wine, beer and soft drinks, watch professional wrestling matches just 50 yards from the track, ogle strippers and snake dancers, cram all-night dance halls and, when they run down, catch a few winks in 20,000 sleeping...
...Seventh has to be ready, perhaps for years to come, for instant attack from the nuclear-armed U.S.S.R. land and air forces poised across the border. It offers enemy nuclear missiles no good targets, encamps no unit bigger than a battalion in a single area. Senior officers roam distant outposts to make unannounced tests of how fast and accurately the outposts could report a Russian tank attack to Army headquarters...